Poultry News

US - Sustainable long-term poultry health and performance could be boosted thanks to a new Salmonella vaccine.

Global Green believes that its vaccine Salmogenics will improve sustainability in poultry production means not only reducing costs and maximizing productivity but also a focus on bird health and welfare and other societal concerns.

“Sustainability is about thinking globally,” commented Jim Perdue of Perdue Farms at the US Egg & Poultry Association’s 2013 Poultry Process Workshop. He stressed that the concept of sustainability is wrapped around providing the world with a nutritious product that is safe, affordable, accessible to the consumer and produced in a way that respects the earth, animals and people with the understanding that it does not necessarily cost more money to do this.

Salmogenics has many advantages proven in field studies, including:

Stimulates an immune response in chickens, improving the heath and welfare of the bird, and those that eat chicken

Healthier birds experience weight gain and reduced mortality

Administered in ovo into the unhatched chicken, eliminating trauma

Reduced illness, or mortality, due to Salmonella

Cost effective for the poultry grower

Dr Mehran Ghazvini, Chairman and CEO, stated: “We believe that it is possible to produce the animals we eat with integrity, humanity and attention to ecological systems.”

Salmogenics is in the final stage of testing and trials before the final USDA approval for its commercial application.